Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) wife of the victim. In the other case in Turkey, government representatives urged the wife of the victim to not get involved in the case. They even suggested her that she “should divorce him” because he would most likely receive a life sentence. His lawyer was also harassed. Five out of fourteen families currently residing outside Turkey reported intense pressure and intimidation against them and their lawyers. In one case, the lawyers hired from the family were also arrested. The next ones that were not allowed to have access to the victim in the detention center. Eventually they were also subject to threats and withdrew from the case. The family was forced to continue representation with the government-appointed lawyer, and not have a lawyer of their choice. The governmentappointed lawyer does not even visit the victim. He did not apply to any international organization and most of the time he does not even pick up the phone when family members call him. The only thing he says is that “these are political cases, there is not much to do.” In another case, the lawyer has not visited the victim for more than a month despite receiving numerous faxes from the victim and the spouse of the victim. The lawyer expressed the intention to withdraw from representation in December 2019, but later informed the family that had changed her mind. Ever since the lawyer barely replies to any of the messages by family members and when it does it is often very late. In two other cases the families have been subject to threats, however, they do not believe that those threats originate from the government or its representatives. LLG – TGRLSP 43 A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 The Turkish Government introduced several measures under the state of emergency, which was declared following the July 2016 coup attempt, by way of a state of emergency decree laws. The decrees were subsequently made laws and some important measures were incorporated permanently into Turkey’s Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and Law on the Execution of Sentences